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Cryptowall vaccine discontinued

[UPDATE] The main protection mechanism provided by the Cryptowall Vaccine relied on exploiting a programming flaw in the Cryptowall Trojan itself. The Cryptowall operators have modified the way they check whether a system has been infected or not, which renders the Cryptowall Vaccine ineffective in some cases.

Because we cannot guarantee the proper functioning of the vaccine anymore, we decided to discontinue providing the tool. Stay tuned for further updates.

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Bogdan BOTEZATU

Bogdan Botezatu is living his second childhood at Bitdefender as senior e-threat analyst. When he is not documenting sophisticated strains of malware or writing removal tools, he teaches extreme sports such as surfing the web without protection or rodeo with wild Trojan horses. He believes that most things in life can be beat with strong heuristics and that antimalware research is like working for a secret agency: you need to stay focused at all times, but you get all the glory when you catch the bad guys.